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PATBNTBD DB0. 11, 1906. E. L. CURIAL.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 19, 1904. BBNBWED MAB. 28, 1905.

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UNITED sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

No.l 838,305.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed March 19, 1904. Renewed March 28, 1905. Serial No.252,526.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. CURIAL, of Anoka, Anoka county, Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention Vis to provide an amusing and instructive toyadapted to be manipulated by the torsion of a string and by means ofwhich pleasing and beautiful color effects can be produced.

The invention consists generally in a hub and a relatively fixed andloosely-mounted screen and colored disk mounted thereon and a stringconnected with said hub for revolving the same.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective view showing the manner of using my invention. Fig. 2is a similar view showing the invention applied to a cylindrical device.Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2` Fig. et is a side elevationof the device Fig. 5 is a section on the line a: of Fig. 4.

In the drawings, 2 represents a hub of any suitable material, and 3sector-shaped plates or screens secured on each end thereof. The hub isprovided with two eyelet-holes 4, one on each side of the center,through which a string 5 is threaded, having ends adapted to be graspedby the lingers to revolve the hub and screen and twist the string. Thehub is made to revolve one way or the other by pulling on the string inthe well-known way.

Between the screens 3, loosely mounted on the hub 2, is a circular disk6, having its surfaces suitably spaced and marked with the primarycolors. In Fig. 1 I have shown the surface of one side of the diskdivided into dierently-colored sector-shaped spaces or areas, butobviously the shape of these spaces Vmay be varied according to thefancy of the In Figs. 2 and 3 I have shown the invention applied to acylindrical toy wherein the screens are separated a considerabledistance to allow the insertion of a loosely-mounted cylinder betweenthem. The construction of this cylinder is similar to the'device shownin Fig. l, except that the screens are arranged farther apart and twohubs, one at each end, being provided in place of one. I also providecurved peripheral plates 8 in place of the narrow strips 7 between thecorresponding ends of the screens and two colored disks loosely mountedon said hubs and connected by a ring or band 9, having on its surface aseries of primary color areas, which when the cylinder is revolved bythe torsion of the string are alternately covered and exposed throughthe openings therein. The operating-string extends through the hubs fromend to end of the cylinder, as shown in F ig. 3, and by pulling thereonthe device will be revolved and a color effect similar to that producedby the manipulation of the disk will be obtained, except that it will beeven more beautiful, owing to the larger exposure of colored area.

I claim as my inventionl. A toy comprising circular shading-disks havingsector-shaped openings or notches in their edges extending inwardly to apoint near their center, a hub having its ends between said disks andsecured centrally thereto and having an operating means and a color-diskloosely mounted on said hub'between the said shading-disks and visiblefrom either side when said shading-disks and hub are revolved.

.2. A toy comprising a hub, sector-sha ed shading and guide diskscentrally secure to the ends of said hub and having eyelet-holescoinciding with similar holes in said hub, and a color member looselymounted on said hub between said shading-disks and held against lateralmovement thereby but free to revolve between them.

3. A toy comprising a hub, sector-shaped shading-disks mounted on theends of said hub with a space between them, a variouslycolored membermounted on said hub between said shading-disks, and peripheralfilling-strips connecting the contiguous edges of said shading-disks,substantially as described.

4. A toy comprising a hub, shading or guide disks mounted on the ends ofsaid hub and including said ends between them, and a color memberloosely mounted on said hub IOO IIO

hetweehsdidshddihg or guide disks dhd he1d mounted 0h Said huh dhdvisible through against lateral movement thereby but free to saidopenings. xo revolve between them. In Witness whereof I have hereuntose't my 5. A color-display device comprising a hub hand this 15th day ofMarch, 1904. and a shading means Connecting the ends EDWARD L. CURIAL.

thereof and having observation-openings, In presence ofand a colormember embraced-and partially RICHARD PAUL,

concealed by said shading means and loosely M. IIAGERTY.

